I went to the local library yesterday to get DVDs to watch on my big screen tv and while I was there, I quickly looked in the art book section and found a big book titled “The Renaissance Portrait From: Donatello to Bellini.”
Straight away I realised I wanted to do a series of Artline 200 drawings on A4 Mont Marte watercolour paper and tried to do an equal number of female and male drawings. At first, I wanted to add a sort of journal text around each portrait but then thought that they looked best without it and minimal and as simple as I could.
I’m not sure why this idea captivated me but I really found all the portraits very beautiful and simple and particularly liked the ones in profile. Most of all I wanted to make a break away from the sort of drawings I have been doing.
I like this following quote as it captures an aspect of the renaissance artist intentions.
“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.”– Albrecht Dürer’s
